Real man adventures
By: T. Cooper
Publisher: McSweeney's Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781938073007; 9781938073755
Subjects: Biography; Transsexuals; Gender identity; Identity; American wit and humor
Description: A few years ago, the novelist T Cooper wrote his parents a letter telling them he "wasn't their daughter anymore." And that was the "good news." This book is Cooper's brash, wildly inventive, and often comic exploration of the paradoxes and pleasures of masculinity. He takes us through his transition into identifying as male, and how he went on to marry his wife and become an adoring stepfather of two children. Alternately bemused and exasperated when he feels compelled to explain all this, Cooper never loses his sense of humor.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Visible; title: WWDD?; title: I hope you're sitting down; title: Not the man they think I am at home; title: Kick me; title: Whole of modern history; title: How to be a man; title: Poem(ish); title: Why they're called passports; title: Dream sequence; title: High school: a six-word memoir; title: Little surfer girl; title: Gallery (A); title: Few words about pronouns; title: Ten things people assume I must understand about women but actually don't; title: Brief interview with my wife; title: But what about the children?; title: Truck driver and hooker; title: College: a six-word memoir; title: Rocket man; title: Interview with a mom; title: My mother's fault; title: Interview with a dad; title: Violence chapter; title: IT (part one); title: IT (part two); title: Sitzpinkler; title: Diagnosis; title: Interview with my brother; title: Thin blue line (interview); title: My number; title: Gallery (B); title: Haiku; title: First 48; title: Man club; title: Gender outlaw (conversation); title: My twenties: a six-word memoir; title: Born in the wrong body; title: 40 successful men; title: ReDICKulous (conversation); title: When I knew; title: Dialogue; title: My wife's job; title: Ten friends' fears; title: Ten of my fears; title: Sex chapter; title: 99 problems, and a bitch ain't one (another interview); title: Invisible.